LOST EXPLORER

Southland Times, Issue 22159, 30 October 1933, Page 2

LOST EXPLORER

FATE OF COLONEL FAWCETT. SEARCH BY YOUNG WIDOW. A young and beautiful woman, tragically widowed a few months ago, is making plans in the island of Jersey to fit out an expedition to solve the mystery of Colonel Fawcett in the Amazon country. She is Mrs Ursula Hanson, whose husband, Mr Charles Hanson, son of a wealthy city man, was drowned in the Thames a few months ago. At the time of his death Mr Hanson was planning a trip up the Amazon in his yacht Sunfinder, which he had specially prepared to meet tropical cruise conditions. A copper-sheathed hull was fitted, and her cruising range extended to 2700 miles. Mrs Hanson recently revealed her plans. The Sunfinder will not, after all, be used; instead, Mrs Hanson will carry her husband’s adventurous idea even further. “I have definitely made up my mind to find, if possible, the secret of Colonel Fawcett, the Englishman whose mysterious disappearance in the Amazon country has never been solved,” she said. “I have always wanted to follow up my husband’s idea, but now that I have become very interested in air travel I have abandoned the idea of using the yacht, and am now making plans for an air expedition. Mrs Victor Bruce, the famous motorist and flyer, has been giving me valuable advice on the project.” Mrs Hanson is financing the expedition, and will probably take a share in piloting the plane. “I am at present interested in developing air transport between Jersey and the mainland,” Mrs Hanson said. “The date of the Amazon trip is therefore not fixed.”